High paying production jobs in Lewiston, ID-WA with no experience

The best paid production occupations in Lewiston, ID-WA that require neither a degree nor prior experience in a related job. This is the narrowest cut on the site, so it is also the shortest list: where a field has only two or three such occupations, there is no page at all rather than a page pretending otherwise.

Cost of living: prices in Lewiston, ID-WA run 8.8% below the national average (2024), so a Lewiston, ID-WA salary is worth about 1.10× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order.

Local wage estimates are suppressed more often than state ones — BLS withholds any figure too few local employers report — so an occupation missing here simply has no published local estimate.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024

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OccupationMedian, Lewiston, ID-WA · Employed

1Production Workers, All Other$93,420
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,370 – $93,42040
2Machinists$62,530
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,520 – $74,37060
3Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators$62,000
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,710 – $77,34050
4Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators$61,830
High school diploma or equivalent
$41,950 – $72,59070
5Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers$55,890
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,050 – $63,940210
6Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders$51,230
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,220 – $61,46040
7Helpers--Production Workers$49,680
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,580 – $52,63070
8Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$46,710
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,850 – $58,080310
9Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic$45,130
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,890 – $57,53050
10Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$43,790
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,680 – $59,770210
11Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders$43,750
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,520 – $50,89080
12Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic$42,390
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,160 – $43,24080
13Butchers and Meat Cutters$40,440
No formal educational credential
$34,650 – $46,90040
14Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic$39,520
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,220 – $47,030140
15Bakers$34,650
No formal educational credential
$23,150 – $44,06050

Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.

#	Occupation	MedianLewiston, ID-WA	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Production Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$93,420	$35,370 – $93,420	40
2	MachinistsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,530	$39,520 – $74,370	60
3	Computer Numerically Controlled Tool OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,000	$45,710 – $77,340	50
4	Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$61,830	$41,950 – $72,590	70
5	Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and BrazersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$55,890	$44,050 – $63,940	210
6	Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$51,230	$38,220 – $61,460	40
7	Helpers--Production WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,680	$37,580 – $52,630	70
8	Miscellaneous Assemblers and FabricatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,710	$36,850 – $58,080	310
9	Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and PlasticHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,130	$39,890 – $57,530	50
10	Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and WeighersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$43,790	$37,680 – $59,770	210
11	Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$43,750	$39,520 – $50,890	80
12	Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and PlasticHigh school diploma or equivalent	$42,390	$39,160 – $43,240	80
13	Butchers and Meat CuttersNo formal educational credential	$40,440	$34,650 – $46,900	40
14	Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and PlasticHigh school diploma or equivalent	$39,520	$39,220 – $47,030	140
15	BakersNo formal educational credential	$34,650	$23,150 – $44,060	50

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Lewiston, ID-WA. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.

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